On 3/30/2011 9:46 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Agreed. Andrei's opinion is understandable if he thinks he'd have to
implement these features and has better things to do. I'd be willing to
do the implementation work if the relevant compiler bugs/enhancements
(2443, 4707, and maybe support for inlining delegates) get fixed so I
can do it right.
I'm much more worried about the long-term costs associated with such an
approach.
Please elaborate. My possibly naive opinion is that objects with a
single-argument opApply are a structural supertype of input ranges
(since they both support foreach with a single argument), so except for
a few minor details with regard to the compiler this is a no-brainer.
It's not a high priority, but it's worth doing for the sake of
consistency and generality.
